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Passage to India Sri Lanka Travel

Island of tea and tourism

Nine arch bridge near Ella   The British love affair with tea can probably best be seen in Sri Lanka, one time island of Ceylon.  Committed advocate of decolonisation as I am, I must nevertheless confess that I do find the name Ceylon more attractive and the name is far from reclusive on the island […]

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Passage to India Travel

Passage to India

Maldive Islands from the air   Last year when I went to Nepal, my journey strangely took me from Manchester to Copenhagen, Copenhagen to Istanbul, then Istanbul to Kathmandu, taking some forty hours in total. This owing to the limitations and convolutions attendant on international travel during the protracted Coronavirus pandemic at that time. The […]